All Other Outcomes

Your Path to SUCCESS

is filled with OPPORTUNITIES

EVERY RWU STUDENT BENEFITS FROM HANDS-ON LEARNING.

You’ll experiment and apply your skills in real-world settings throughout your academic career. Experiential learning opportunities are available in every major, and each one is designed to give you the skills that employers seek. Whether it’s a study abroad semester, internship, research project, or a course centered around working directly with a community partner, you will have multiple opportunities to try new things and apply your learning in a variety of settings. It’s the act of doing that makes your education here at RWU personal and relevant. We prepare you to be a lifelong learner, an engaged professional, and a global citizen.

SUCCESS by the NUMBERS

96% PLACEMENT OF 2022 GRADS

Our graduates consistently find success in employment or in graduate school within 6 months of graduation.

OVER 80% GRADUATE WITH MORE THAN A SINGLE MAJOR

At RWU, we encourage combining your passions - our programs allow you the space for an additional major and/or minor, which gives you the skills and diverse experiences that set you up for success.

Get a Valuable INTERNSHIP

100% GUARANTEED REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE

Our students get the experience that employers are looking for from internships, research programs, and hands-on projects unique to each school and major.

At RWU, we value the incredible hands-on experience that internships provide our students. An internship allows you to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom to real-time practice and discover what it’s like to work in the industry among other professionals. Often, internships lead to full-time job offers.

HERE ARE SOME RECENT INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS:

» American Lung Association

» R.I. Attorney General’s Office

» Cambridge Isotope Laboratories

» Center for Disease Control and Prevention

» Child & Family RI

» Congressional and Senatorial Offices

» Dorcas International Institute of RI

» General Dynamics

» Girls, Inc. of Taunton

» Herreshoff Marine Museum

» iRobot

» Mount Hope Farm

» NASA

» New England Aquarium

» New England Patriots

» Northern Rhode Island Conservation District

» Pfizer, Inc.

» Providence Mayor’s Office

» RI Department of Environmental Management

» RI Department of Health

» RI Governor’s Office

» Raytheon

» Sailing World Magazine

» The Newport Art Museum

» The Rhode Island Historical Society

» Walt Disney World

» Women’s Fund

Make an Impact

Starting from your first semester, you’ll be working on innovative research and engaged projects to solve problems that matter deeply to our communities. You’ll be empowered to work with community partners to create change. At Roger, we’re not just creating great scholars –we’re creating great citizens.

Graduates Share Their EXPERIENCES

Every faculty, advisor, and everyone I came across at Roger has been so supportive and motivational. When I told them what I wanted to do, they’d say, “I know this person, I will help you. I’ll get you in contact with them so you can see if this is what you want to do.” Honestly, if it weren’t for them, I would never have had the opportunities I’ve had.

TATEVIK KHACHATRYAN ’21

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY

Masters in Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at Syracuse University

Working as a peer tutor was beneficial for me. It taught me to break things down into little parts and build them back up so anybody can understand them. In a workplace, that’s extremely valuable if I create a program but then have to teach someone else who may not understand it like me. Now I know how to go in and show them how it all works and explain it in a way until they get it.

JAKE SOUZA ’19 COMPUTER SCIENCE

Consultant at Pariveda Solution in Philadelphia, PA.

I knew I wanted to explore both Dance and Political Science before making a career decision. This is a unique school where I was able to create my own college experience rather than following one set academic criteria.

EMILY BARTNICKI ’20

DANCE/PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Paralegal at COMSOL, INC and Dancer at Project31, Boston, MA.

Our PR professor took a group of 15 students to California over winter break. We toured all different PR agencies and explored the state. It was so much fun to get to know everyone in my program really well and also get a glimpse into all the different aspects of the communications field.

GABBY DOUGHERTY ’18 PUBLIC RELATIONS

Account Executive at Elevate Communications in Boston, MA.

My research experience is the number one reason I was able to get into graduate school. At RWU, we can get graduate-level research experience as undergrads. I got to spend so much time in the lab.

KATE GILBERT ’22

BIOCHEMISTRY

Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry and M.S. candidate in Applied Mathematics at Brown University

You’ll Study with EXPERT FACULTY

KAMILLE

GENTLES-PEART,

PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES

Gentles-Peart is an interdisciplinary cultural scholar whose scholarship engages and contributes to critical discourses of race, gender, and the African diaspora. Her work interrogates the manifold ways in which power manifests itself in the lived realities of Black women and how Black women make meaning in the context of race and gender hegemonies.

At RWU, she co-designed the Diversity and Inclusion Fellows program, a year-long program and an intensive summer institute for faculty on equity and inclusion, and has been an active participant in creating the university’s Equity Action Plan and bringing equity work into the classroom.

KERRI WARREN, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY

Kerri Warren is co-founder of RWU’s Public Health program where she prepares students to be the future of public health leadership. She helped create two significant fieldwork experiences as part of the curriculum, which help students get out in the community and start contributing to the public health field, sometimes leading to job or graduate school acceptances. Starting in 2022, Warren serves as the president of the Rhode Island Public Health Association. As part of her work to promote public health in Rhode Island, she’s focused on issues including rising cases of chronic and infectious disease, mental illness, substance abuse, overdose, gun violence, severe weather events, and uneven access to health care, behavioral health care and preventative health services.

Undergraduate Research

These opportunities are integrated into the curriculum for most programs. Students earn academic credit for doing research, developing proposals and competing for small grants to fund their projects, and presenting their findings at regional, national and international conferences. We recently launched The First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program, a new initiative involving first semester students in hands-on research, setting a foundation for four years of undergraduate research experience.

The RWU Difference

UNIQUE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

RWU students learn by doing through hands-on, project-based experiences to solve problems that matter deeply to our communities and allow students to connect their classroom work with situations in the real world. This provides our graduates with an immediate competitive advantage over others when starting their career.

In recognition of our strong focus on community-engaged learning, we recently received the highly-selective Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, citing RWU as a leader in community-engaged work and civic scholarship. RWU is one of only two universities in Rhode Island, and one of only 359 institutions nationally to hold this classification.

FLEXIBLE CURRICULUM

RWU’s flexible curriculum allows for students to investigate potential majors while remaining on a four-year path to graduation! Plus, you can create your own powerful combination of majors and minors. Over 80% of RWU students graduate with more than a single major, and our advisors help you plan your schedule to pursue second majors and minors while still graduating in four years.

PEER MENTORSHIP AND GUIDANCE

Every RWU student is paired with an experienced and trained Peer Mentor who will be a friendly support system to assist in the transition from high school to college life. From helping you find where your classes are, to providing advice and directing you to support, these mentors are your guide to all things RWU.

RECEIVE PERSONALIZED ATTENTION

RWU is here to support you along the way. 100% of our classes are taught by professors, not teaching assistants, with no large lecture halls. You’ll get individualized support from your professors and advisors, and our staff in the Center for Student Academic Success and Center for Career and Professional Development are there for you whenever you need them.

SAFE, WATERFRONT LOCATION

Beyond all the campus-based activities, Roger Williams’ historic New England location provides nearby opportunities to engage in diverse settings, as well as tons to explore. The town of Bristol, Rhode Island is perfectly situated halfway between Providence, Rhode Island’s thriving capital city, and the seaside city of Newport. Bristol is ranked as one of the safest college towns in the country by Safewise.com and as one of the top 25 best small towns in America by Architectural Digest.

A THRIVING COMMUNITY

Life at RWU is all about community. Students manage and lead over 80 student clubs and organizations, host fundraisers for charities and organize poetry slams, concerts, and performances. And when you need to take a break, you can visit our 9,000-square-foot recreation center, take out the free kayaks and paddleboards, or just relax on the shores of campus.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

Diversity, equity and inclusion are core institutional values at RWU. Our efforts begin in the classroom with a vibrant and evolving curriculum and our Faculty Diversity Fellowship, which focuses on equity in instruction. We facilitate support and community-building through numerous student-facing centers, offices, affinity spaces, clubs, and organizations.

A LEADER IN STUDY ABROAD

You will have plenty of options to enrich your college experience with the opportunity to study abroad in more than 27 countries across six continents. Many of these programs allow students to apply their scholarships and aid – making the cost the same or similar to studying on campus, and we offer several academic and need-based study abroad scholarships to make these culturally immersive experiences possible.